{"id":336844,"date":"2026-10-27T01:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/book-review-princes-and-thieves-by-matthew-cole.html"},"modified":"2026-10-27T01:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:57:23","slug":"book-review-princes-and-thieves-by-matthew-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/book-review-princes-and-thieves-by-matthew-cole.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: \u2018Princes and Thieves,\u2019 by Matthew Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-e6qqi8 etfikam0\"><strong class=\"F_p3NG_bold\">PRINCES AND THIEVES: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed\u2019s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East<\/strong>, by Matthew Cole<\/p>\n<hr class=\"vr2D5G_rule css-1lpvp6o\" \/>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">It is hard to know where to look. Donald Trump\u2019s two presidential terms generate so many outrages and depredations that they become a giant kaleidoscope of ever-changing distractions. In \u201cPrinces and Thieves,\u201d his startling and important book alleging previously unreported activities by Jared Kushner during the first Trump administration, the investigative journalist Matthew Cole, a veteran reporter on national security, asks us to focus our eyes on the collection of oil-rich sheikhdoms known as the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">If Cole\u2019s claims are accurate, Kushner\u2019s political and financial relationship with the U.A.E.\u2019s president, Mohammed bin Zayed (widely known as M.B.Z.), constitutes what must surely be the worst case of U.S. foreign policy being conducted outside the law and democratic oversight since the Iran-contra scandal during the Reagan administration in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/26\/books\/review\/princes-and-thieves-matthew-cole.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRINCES AND THIEVES: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed\u2019s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, by Matthew Cole It is hard to know where to look. Donald Trump\u2019s two presidential terms generate so many outrages and depredations that they become a giant kaleidoscope of ever-changing distractions. In \u201cPrinces and Thieves,\u201d his startling and important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-336844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}